Would Scott Sinclair be a good transfer option for Swansea City?

Transfer rumours reached a new level on Tuesday when speculation increased that Scott Sinclair was about to seal a move back to us less than two years after leaving for the bright lights of Manchester City.

The source? A man well connected with the club? The player’s agent? Respected football journalists? The player himself? (God forbid a player himself would ever be connected with a rumour!) Nope, none of these, the impeccable source was Scott’s other half Helen Flanagan who posted a photo on Instagram. That’s right, a photo of the coastline in Swansea was posted on Instagram and now that can only mean that Scott is about to make a return to the Liberty Stadium.

Transfer rumours have certainly come a long way since the days of Clubcall and Teletext and now local newspapers carry stories such as this and even admit that they have no clue whether it is a photo taken recently or one that was when they lived down here (presumably before she decided she was bored here?)

Now there may be truth in the speculation (I don’t know one way or the other) but to actually take an assumption that a photo posted can only mean one things means that the World Cup must be boring some people at this point in time that two and two can be added together and made to equal around forty-seven!

Would Sinclair be a good option? GIven the form at the back end of the season of Nathan Dyer and Wayne Routledge you would say no and with Pablo Hernandez as another option you would doubt whether we would need another winger and would Scott be prepared to take a 75 per cent pay rise from his salary at Manchester City to return to Swansea? I can’t see it and to be honest I am not sure whether we would want him although he would be a decent option off the bench as and when we needed one.

But I cannot get too excited about any photos put on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or any other form of social media and to be honest the fact that the Evening Post ran it as a story says much about our local newspaper than anything else.